Daming 1805

Chapter 93 No one knows how to deal with barbarians better than me!

After the princes have completed their education, usually when they are just adults, they will be sent directly to the localities to participate in so-called administrative training.

Like ordinary people who have just graduated from college and have just been admitted as scholars, they want to be real grassroots officials.

Ordinary officials are tested every three years, while the princes and grandsons who are trained in governance are tested every two years, completely staggering the assessment and promotion cycle from ordinary officials.

Ordinary officials passing the assessment may not necessarily be promoted, and promotion may not necessarily change the region where they work.

The prince who got the "inferior" evaluation will be eliminated directly, and the "flat" evaluation will be balanced in different places, and the evaluation will be repeated two years later.

Those who get "excellent" and "good" will be promoted to another place to serve as a higher-level bureaucrat and enter the next round of two-year assessment, and so on.

After they have served on the ground for more than ten years, their official rank usually rises to the rank of chief envoy, and the older ones will be replaced by a chief envoy every two years.

A few years before retirement, the old emperor would call the prince of the right age into the capital, assign him to each department as a servant, and conduct the final inspection and screening.

This cycle usually only lasts one to two years. The selected prince will be promoted to the official minister, and the unselected will serve in other ministries.

After the heir has been promoted to the minister of officials, it usually takes two years before he can take the throne.

During this whole process, the princes certainly have the opportunity to develop their own henchmen, but most of them will be scattered in places.

With the constant dislocation and promotion, and the constant isolation from the princes, it is difficult to maintain a close relationship all the time.

In most cases, the prince will only remember that a certain person has the ability, and he can use it in the future. This kind of relationship and impression between modern bureaucrats.

Can't get the kind of ancient society, serving his subordinates as a courtier.

More importantly, local bureaucrats who have worked with the prince for a long time are not allowed to be promoted to the capital before the new emperor ascends the throne.

Therefore, before the emperor ascended the throne, even if he had partisans in the local area, he would not be able to help a lot in the competition for the reserve position, and he could only use it after he ascended the throne.

As for senior officials taking the initiative to invest in a certain prince, this situation is not completely impossible, but it is too difficult and the return period is too long.

Whether the prince is good or not, he has to serve in the local area for more than ten years.

During this period, no return can be given to investors, and investors will have to take risks for more than ten years. When the prince returns to the capital, he should retire himself.

If you are really optimistic about a certain prince, it is better to let the children of the family go to the place to seek refuge, and after the prince ascends the throne, call the children of the family into the capital as officials.

The one or two years when the prince went to the capital to be screened was not enough to develop a strong and stable team in the court.

When the prince can ascend to the throne, most of the existing ministers should retire. There is no need to take credit for Conglong.

The retirement time of the old ministers is not completely fixed, but it is customary to retire with the old emperor, unless the old emperor asks him to help the new emperor for a few more years.

The Minister of Military Aircraft and the senior members of the Cabinet may be a little younger, but there is no possibility of promotion.

As for the next-level, senior ministers such as Shilang, they may have speculative ideas.

But the time window is too short, many people have not made up their minds, the successor has been decided.

It is also in the short period of the past two years that the princes will not form a deep partisan camp, and ordinary bureaucrats do not have to worry about being attacked if they fail to take effect.

After the identity of the heir is determined, there is no need for the heir to develop his own heirs.

The heir has been recognized by the old emperor. After ascending the throne, all the ministers are his own open henchmen, and the old emperor is directly under the care of him.

Why should such an heir go to court the bureaucracy?

Therefore, after the Renwu Dynasty, the princes had their own henchmen, but they were all local and could only be used after they ascended the throne.

The heir to the throne, among the high-level bureaucrats in the capital, has no and does not need die-hard henchmen.

The old emperor will retire at the age of 60, and he will ascend the throne in his prime in his 30s.

There is no need to take risks at all, and the benefits and risks are completely disproportionate.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there is no such thing as in the classical era. Ministers have turned to a certain prince as the future lord in advance, forming the soil of the personal attachment relationship that is bound to each other.

Even the mentality of many ministers facing the emperor is no longer regarded as the master of the classical era, but similar to the mentality of the highest boss bureaucrats, not to mention the uncertain prince.

To put it bluntly, Minzhi has gradually opened up.

The result of this is that if a certain prince is really selected as the heir and then abandoned, they basically have little room for resistance at this time.

For ordinary officials, it makes no difference who is the emperor, and it is impossible to temporarily help the abandoned heir.

Zhu Jianfeng's situation was a bit special. After he became a semi-public heir, he stayed in this position for six years.

The ever-increasing pressure forced him to try, as a senior official at the Shangshu level, to contact and develop other bureaucrats and become close political allies.

Cao Zhenyong was such an ally of Zhu Jianfeng.

Cao Zhenyong himself believes that his relationship with Zhu Jianfeng is not at all the kind of courtier mentality that pursued the power of the dragon before the Renwu Dynasty.

The two are political allies at most, and they are cronies, not preparing for a monarch and minister.

The key is that the relationship between the two, even the old emperor is fully aware of it.

The current emperor of Ming Dynasty is very open. As long as there are people, there are rivers and lakes. It is impossible to completely ban cronies, as long as the overall situation is relatively controllable.

Cao Zhenyong subconsciously turned his head to look outside, and then persuaded earnestly:
"So, Your Highness, instead of continuing to struggle like this, it's better to accept it calmly.

"As the most outstanding prince of this generation, Zongzheng's position in the future will be indispensable.

"Now the power of the clan's mansion, especially the clan's court, is getting bigger and bigger, and the imperial court has begun to be influenced by it.

"The clan members of the clan's court, although they have no direct power, can question any policy, and the relevant officials must also give an explanation.

"Apart from His Majesty, the clansmen are the only ones who can justifiably intervene in any political position."

Zhu Jianfeng was definitely not an idiot. Hearing this kind of persuasion from Cao Zhenyong, he shuddered and stared at Cao Zhenyong:
"My father asked you to persuade me! Is this my father's arrangement?"

Cao Zhenyong did not speak, and Zhu Jianfeng took it as his acquiescence.

The scene was quiet for a few seconds, Zhu Jianfeng raised his head, closed his eyes, and asked in a particularly heavy tone:
"Why did it become like this? How did it become like this?"

Cao Zhenyong thought about it:

"If you insist, Xiyi will have to bear part of the responsibility, if there is no war..."

Cao Zhenyong just raised his head a little, and didn't finish what he meant. Zhu Jianfeng reacted suddenly:
"Yes! It's Xiyi! It's Xiyi! If it hadn't been for this war started by Xiyi! Five years ago, I would have—

"Five years ago, that kid Jing Yuan was just a hairy kid, no matter how talented he showed, he was just a precocious kid.

"If it wasn't for that war, everything wouldn't be what it is now, everything should be what it was supposed to be!"

Cao Zhenyong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this Highness needs an excuse and a direction to vent, otherwise it will be really difficult to accept the reality.

As for whether the Xiyi provoked a war, whether it was forced by Daming or not, it doesn't matter:

"So, Your Highness, do you want to take over this errand, as the representative of the Ming Dynasty, to participate in the peace talks with the Western countries?"

Zhu Jianfeng said loudly in a particularly gloomy tone:
"Go, why not go! No one knows how to deal with barbarians better than I do!"

　There will definitely be a lot of questions in the previous chapter, so this chapter will also be sent to explain
　　
　
(End of this chapter)